We depend on God for our existence at every moment, but God has made us to be able to participate in the creation he has made, and on some level to be “co-creators” with him.
In traditional theological language, this is called being a “secondary cause”. As the “ground of being”, God is the “first cause” of everything. But by creating us with intelligence and free will, we are not just puppets on strings. We can manipulate the creation around us, according to our powers, and, in a derivative way, create things ourselves. We can’t do so out of nothing, like God does, but it is creation nonetheless.
But I know this is hard to understand, to analogies to the rescue! Specifically, the analogy of the group chat, which shows how we (and angels too!) can be secondary creators, while always respecting God as the ultimate creator of everything.
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